Suicide Prevention Awareness Day 2011
On September 27, 2011, the Pennsylvania Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative and the Adult/Older Adult Suicide Prevention Coalition held a Suicide Prevention Awareness event in the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. Various community organizations participated, and a press conference was held featuring speakers representing youth, transition-age youth, adults and older adults. Representatives Gene DiGirolamo, chair of the House Human Services Committee, and Tony Payton, subcommittee chair for mental health, also spoke. An Empty Shoe Memorial was displayed, representing all those whose lives have been lost to suicide. The House of Representatives passed a resolution urging "the residents of this commonwealth to support the volunteer agencies that work to educate the public on the symptoms and risk factors associated with suicide and to provide services dedicated to prevent suicides."

Text of the House Resolution


Francesca Pileggi speaks at the Awareness Day press conference





Patricia, a high school student representing Aevidum, speaks at the Awareness Day press conference




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    Francesca
   Patricia


Slide show from Awareness day activities:

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The Pennsylvania Suicide Prevention Initiative is a Public/Private Ongoing Collaborative including: Survivors of Suicide, Statewide & Regional Representatives from Departments of Public Welfare, Health, Education, and Aging, Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission, County MH/MR Administrators Association and several county programs, County CASSP Coordinators, American Trauma Society, The STAR Center, PA Child Death Review Team, PA Protection and Advocacy, PA Psychiatric Society, PA Association of School Social Workers, NAMI of PA, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Mental Health Association of PA, PIN of PA, PA Del Val NAPNAP, a County Medical Examiner, a City Health Bureau, a State University, a Behavioral Health MCO, Common Roads, Juvenile Detention Center Association of PA, Pennsylvania Community Providers Association, Pennsylvania Council on Children, Youth, and Family Services, Providers and Student Assistance Program Trainers, School Districts, Yellow Ribbon Chapters, Feeling Blue Suicide Prevention Council, multiple county task forces and other grassroots organizations.


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